Speculations ESSAYS ON HUMANISM AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF ART By T. E.
IIULME Edited by HERBERT READ With a Frontispiece and Foreword by
JACOB EPSTEIN LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER CO., LTD. NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE COMPANY, INC. 1936 T. K. HULME From n Bronze by
Jacob Epstein. CONTENTS Frontispiece Portrait of the Author from a
Bronze by Jacob Epstein PAGE FOREWORD . . . . vii INTRODUCTION . .
. ix AUTHORS PREFACE .... xvi HUMANISM AND THE RELIGIOUS ATTITUDE I
MODERN ART AND ITS PHILOSOPHY . . 73 ROMANTICISM AND CLASSICISM . .
Ill BERGSONS THEORY OF ART . . .141 THE PHILOSOPHY OF INTENSIVE
MANIFOLDS I I CINDERS ..... 215 APPENDICES A. REFLECTIONS ON
VIOLENCE . . 249 B. PLAN FOR A WORK ON MODERN THEORIES OF ART . . .
.261 C. THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF T. E. HULME .... 265 INDEX
...... 269 FOREWORD HUI. ME was my very great friend, and what I
can say about him is entirely personal. What appealed to me
particularly in him was the vigour and sincerity of his thought. He
was capable of kicking a theory as well as a man downstairs when
the occasion de manded. I always felt him to be my chief bulwark
against malicious criticism. He was a man who had no regard for
personal fame or notoriety, and he considered that his work lay
entirely in the future. His whole life was a preparation for the
task of interpre tation which he had set himself. He would make
reckless sacrifices to possess works of art which he could not
really afford he bought not only my own works, but also those of
Gaudier-Brzeska and this long before Gaudier was well known. Hulme
was a terror to fumistes and charlatans of all kinds. His passion
for the truth was uncontrolled. I recall dozens of little personal
thingscharacteristic of the man but particularly our first meeting.
I was at work on the Wilde monument. Hulme immediately put his own
construction on my work turned it vii SPECULATIONS into some theory
of projectiles. My sculp ture only served to start the train of his
thought. Abstract art had an extraordinary attraction for him his
own brain worked in that way. At one time, in company with a group
of imagists, he composed some short poems with which, had he gone
on, he would have made what would be called a literary success. But
this seemed to him too facile. lyike Plato and Socrates, he drew
the intellectual youth of his time around him. We have no one quite
like him in England to-day. JACOB EPSTEIN. Vlli INTRODUCTION THOMAS
ERNEST HUI ME was born on the i6th September 1883, at Gratton Hall,
Endon, North Staffordshire. He was educated at the High School,
Newcastle-under-L, yme, and at St Johns College, Cambridge. In
March 1904 he was sent down from Cambridge, along with other
undergraduates, for indulging in a brawl. He spent the next two
years in L, ondon, studying in accordance witli his own
inclinations. In July 1906 he went to Canada, where he stayed three
months. He returned to England for a few weeks, and early in 1907
he went to Brussels, where for seven months he taught English and
learned French and German. When he came back to London he began
definitely to study those subjects on which his interest was
settling. In April 1911 he attended the Philosophical Congress at
Bologna and stayed in Italy travelling for about three months.
Early in 1912 he sought to return to Cambridge, and he was
readmitted largely through the intervention of Professor Bergson,
whose letter ofrecommendation on that occasion is some indication
of the impres sion Hulme was already creating ix SPECULATIONS Je me
fais un plaisir de certifier que je considere Mr T. E. Hulme comme
un esprit dune grande valeur. II apporte, a retude des questions
philosophiques, de rares qualities de finesse, de vigueur, et de
penetration. Ou je me trompe beaucoup, ou il est destine d produire
des ceuvres inter essantes et importantes dans le doni aine de la
philosophie en general, et plus particulicrement peut-etre dans
celui de la philosophie de Vart...
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